After Control-M/Tape has been implemented and is operating is a way compatible with the operation of your previous tape management system, you may choose to implement advanced Control-M/Tape features and customization.
Combine Control-M/Tape rules by replacing selection criteria (in ON statements) with masks and by implementation of working calendars using the IOA Calendar facility.
Customize the tape management environment to maximize benefits provided by Control-M/Tape. This process includes:
Tuning of pool, vault, and rule definitions for optimum hardware and system utilization.
Reducing the number of rules created during the conversion process by defining generic rules for groups of jobs, data sets, volumes, accounts, and so on.
Defining rules according to applications and for types of processing (for example, month-end runs).
Defining vault management and pool allocation rules, and modifying existing rules to convert from volume-level retention to data set-level retention.
